Do you think Hasan Piker has ever eaten at the Cheesecake Factory? We're guessing not.

Listen to this episode to hear our midterm predictions, candid takes, and who we think the Democrats should run in 2028!

We've built computers to do our thinking while we live our lives, but do they understand anything? In this interview, Dr. David Klindt (AI Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) explains to me how brains interpret the world – and whether AI can.

Spoiler alert: not your fashion sense!

Evan Barker (author of Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, now a New York Times Best Seller) has so many problems with the Democratic Party that she is thinking about ending it all – and it's election season! As a reporter tries to understand what went wrong, Evan takes us back through her political career: the campaigns, the candidates, and the increasingly strange world of American politics.

Why hasn't Disney created a princess who uses a wheelchair? Wouldn't that be kind of cool?

Evan Bacon (Head of AI at Expo, creator of Expo Router, and LEGO master, among other things) talks to me about his brain.

Nothing really happens this episode, but that's okay! Not everything has to be The English Patient! Some things can just be fun!

Clear Your Mental Cache with Cat Lavery is the only interview I'll ever re-run. (Kind of ironic when you consider the subject matter, right? Enjoy!!)

After a sudden layoff at Frog Design, one employee's life story took a tragic turn. While their death cannot be attributed solely to the dismissal, it’s difficult to ignore the role it may have played. For many, the loss of work means the loss of identity.

Now, that was over ten years ago, long before AI began reshaping the labor market on a massive scale. By 2030, roughly 92 million jobs could be displaced globally.

So what happens if work just...goes away? How will we find purpose and meaning? What will we do? In this episode, former Frog Design HR director Lindsey Ducroz talks to me about lessons learned, potential paths forward, and our purpose in life.